Okay so 18 is the number. I dl it and did a frugal and tested mpg and avi but mp4 fails and .flv fails to play. Streaming video in Vesa works as well as on q013 and streaming radio and rm files works good too but I fail to get it to work with nvida in xorg.

I had hoped it would detect the NV correctly.

Quote:

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky, version 018

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610001u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
vesa

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: 1024x768 Depth: 16

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

When I tried the test in Xorg it show a red square on a green background so that one failed to work. Had to start all over with vesa instead._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Works fine. 6 sfs installed ok. Needs fixmenus before they are in the menu. Open Office 3.1.1 sfs included ok. Works now.
Thunderbird works also. No crashing. Alsaconf and audio ok. Ext3 savefile ok. Acer laptop brightness control works !!!
SNS works with wireless.

"Latest and greatest." AMEN! Sound and printer set up flawlessly. Fast and stable. Love the new icon set!

One problem, the 4fs save file doesn't work. Using a frugal installation on an ext4 partition, entered system values, rebooted, created a 4fs save file, however it was not recognized on the next reboot. The icons were all messed up also after entering the new setup information. Therefore, I just deleted the corrupt 4fs save file, rebooted using GRUB, went through setup again, and saved as 3fs. The 3fs save file works fine.

EDIT: Created another new 4fs file on an ext4 partition, same results as above.

dotdelta(s) dl'd nicely (that is a whack of drivers - hope they fly on a goodly range, are fairly easy to select at boot and end the xorg back'n'forth ).. buglets may actually be viewed as diagnostic-related testing features (to bodge a phrase from the rox dev-team handbook, )

will edit-in more L8r..
___100414 update_________
1st session didn't save - lost when it timed out as I was reading. I found the savefile typechoice stuff I was looking for the 2nd time through..

Well, a sort of coldboot+dummy-intermezzo-with-xorg+reboot gets q018 started 'on its own' .. kind of a roundabout workaround but it's doable (if I can remember the dummy steps). Some amenities in and ob in a better 'working trim' (more efficient without a roxpin and pfbpanel 'on-demand' if desired). It was a bit of a struggle getting it correct, but got save2flash to give a choice of save/no-save at reboot or poweroff (gave up on in-session save , much too dependent on whatever background stuff I unticked maybe).

Other 'box wms are well-suited for this pup (blackbox and fluxbox as well as wmx7).

Tried 01micko's jwm478 (from lupup04 thread) to see if things have changed alpha-wise in relation to that issue - a non-starter that was (needs the 2.11 libc set it seems rather than the 2.10.1). Might be a venue worth investigating for those who prefer jwm as 01micko reported the alpha issue was solved in lupup04?

Playing with pfbpanel - very nice, but (always a but, eh?) a few things.. The menu plugin doesn't stay expanded for long (about 4 sec?) and tends to contract back (good or bad depending on how slow the user is) - twitchy. Panel 'disappears' if dock option is unticked (shows in htop as up but ?, not iconified since it doesn't show in clientmenus - maybe a skip* option is set somewhere). /bin/bash /usr/sbin/pfbpanel stays up after an "OK" (but not a quit) .. may be because I took it off the menu and put it on a launch . Auto-hidden panel pops out a bit 'early' (maus proximity about twice the distance as panel height), otherwise good response. Probably too much to look for a provision for separate profiles rather than a single default. Some things really need to be wm-specific - like fluxbox already has a systray if the toolbar is on, the pager likely won't work as well as native pagers like afterstep's and even simple plugin-buttons like the minimize/shade can be tricky (depending). Almost hate to say it, but jwm's tray system was/is elegantly simple and efficient. This one's fun, really like the var/local/icons sym-storehouse for getting most icons in a local 'repo' (should come in handy for getting a standard path for many things that use 'em).

100410
It *was* going well. But the new (since q010) fs check thing bit me or I must have made some fatal errors in regard to it - upshot is my savefile for q018 is gone.

All was good, I used the increase savefile size utility to add 32mb to a 64mb savefile since by freemem I only had 41mb left and was planning on doing some fair-sized adds after the reboot-save. Reboot (chose to save) and it saved .. entered "puppy acpi=force" at the splash/prompt, selected the proper savefile .. it started and UHOH.

..reams of error messages streamed - when it finally ended - nnnnnnnnnn is 10 digit numbers
(many mssgs similar to following line)
EXT3-fs error (device sde4): ext3_free_branches: Read failure, inode=28, block=nnnnnnnnnn
...continuing with loading /quirkysave-eighteen.2fs... done
Loading the 'quirky-018.sfs' main file... done
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
..and an ungraceful crash (flashing kybd leds, no kybd response on prompt-blink on display->hardoff). Now what? Since it saved oki, decided to check in good old q008 since it's a multisession liveCD and is predictable/similar/can do all the fs and sfs. A quick check of the sde4,ext3 quirky partition looked oki (as expected, the fsckme.err file was gone and the savefile for q018 never got to the point where the size could be increased at reboot). Unmounted and ran a check on it in GParted. Remounted and looked at it again -
do NOT do the following italicized passage..
then I decided to make a new fsckme.err file with content "sde4,ext3,/quirkysave-eighteen.2fs" since I *hate* going thru the freaking xorg runaround when it doesn't find the fsckme.err file and therefore won't find the savefiles and goes to xorg initial setup nonsense. In hindsight it may have been wiser to simply dummy-guess thru xorg on that whacky workaround to coldboot q018 on its own and get to a reboot so it would more-or-less do what it should. .. reboot from q008 (nosave and it pops the q008 disc, throw the bootdisc for q018 in and hit enter) .. q018 splashes, goes to mssgs and hunh it's performing 3fs check on sde4 before it goes to select savefile and aw geeeeez .. no savefile for q018 in the list (it was definitely there when I left q008). Punch the casebutton and get q008 back up and look at the good news. Oh well.
.. as a matter of fact, really try to avoid hardoffs (I didn't quite understand how the fsckme.err file is removed on an orderly shutdown and may just not be such a good idea to create it manually .. add to that the resize and it could quite possibly go to the uh-oh%#&@ stage if things go real wrong.

Sprinkle in the black on blue select colorscheme of console interface once you're there... yah, you know xorg is 'right' when it's quite difficult to read what's selected in the dialogues (makes perfect sense in an xorg way). Now using an ext3 savefile on the thumbdrive, maybe I'll get it more-or-less doable by the time p5xx comes out if I can remember all the ways to mess up

100411-12
Pretty much fixed, even got through the coldboot 'dummy' run with xorg to get to a reboot (when it actually finds the savefiles) - I can get to a prompt if I remember where to detour out after the first few dialogues (pfix=nox doesn't go to it right away..). Got my own icontheme in and used iconswitcher and arrrgh up pops a roxpin in blackbox. Then openbox wouldn't come up? it clicks back to prompt Looked at a few logs and unticked stuff in /root/Startup to make it non-exec (traytemp and vattery seem to be causing probs?) and some other stuff. blackbox and fluxbox are oki, just ob won't start . (partial log in attach 1)

Perhaps openbox now needs a roxpin to start? Or rox needs to have pinboard and panel unchecked in options? Or what's the deal with having openbox's original oem menu.xml (and it's only the 'main' menu - neither the top or bottom is there as on what was the working full menu.xml)on / dir? (it worked fine in the 'usual' /root/.config/openbox dir .. obmenu-refresh does what it should, etc). As far as I can tell, dbus should still be oki (yah, took a look at /etc/xdg/autostart.sh) and bootmanager->services,messagebus is ticked so ..?

did a very slight mod of Mikachu (attach 2), but since ob won't start in q018 for me now .. bigger image 221k done in the still-going-strong q010

___dreamtime
" tells of two tribes of ancestral spirits who were invited to a feast, but were distracted by the beautiful Sleepy Lizard Women and did not show up. In response, the angry hosts sang evil into a mud sculpture that came to life as the dingo. " (to be continued)

Sound detected OK
Video detected OK first time using ATI Radeon 3450 video card.
RT73usb WLAN interface detected OK but doesn't connect using either of the wizards. Module may need re-compiling for this latest kernel.

Did a work-around to get the Brother DCP7030 printer/scanner to work. Installed dpkg from Debian Unstable and libc6 also from there.Then created dummy /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available files. The built-in dpkg in Quirky/Busybox doesn't seem to work. I then ran dpkg -i --force-all "name of driver(s)" from the command-line and all was well. dpkg from busybox does not seem to be able to handle the "--force-all" parameter. Scanning OK using the Brother brscan3 driver.

Seamonkey 2.0.4 is good. It allows a lot more Firefox type extensions to be installed. A big improvement over the Seamonkey 1.1.* series. I have much less need of Firefox now.

General impression is very fast and stable. Will play with it further._________________Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer